OLPC XO notebook now in production and should be able to meet initial orders

We first heard about the One Laptop per child (OLPC) foundation several years ago when MIT first proposed to build very low cost notebook computers with the goal of putting one laptop into the hands of each child in developing nations to improve their education.

"Today represents an important milestone in the evolution of the One Laptop per Child project," said Nicholas Negroponte, founder of OLPC. Negroponte told the BBC that the OLPC had reached this milestone “despite all the naysayers.”

With the XO laptop now in full production the OLPC Foundation should have no trouble filling its first order of 100,000 XO notebooks for Uruguay and enough systems to cover the demand here in the United States for the Give 1 Get 1 promotion running from the 12th to November 26.